Is THE GOOD AND THE BEAUTIFUL Worth The Hype? || Should We Use The Good And The Beautiful SCIENCE?

This video reminds me the beauty of homeschool. I just finished watching another homeschool video where the Mom said she would NEVER use TGATB. I love that homeschooling allows each family to choose what is best for them.

Thankyou for the info on the maturation unit! I love the idea of covering it one on one over a weekend away ❤️

We’re doing Kingdoms and Classification and Marine Biology from TGATB this coming year. I really like the changes they have made. Even more “open and go” than before. I’m glad you mentioned the Maturation unit. I need to do that unit soon. 🙃

I'm an "in betweener" on TGTB. I think their new version of Language Arts is much more focused on phonics and it has been really effective in teaching my kids to read. They HATED AAR and all of the "popular" programs. I'm on the fence about math - I know the spiral approach has shown great results for the younger ages, but my math brain prefers mastery. That being said, my kids love doing their math lessons and rarely gripe about it and they are learning. The hybrid co-op we go to also uses the curriculum, so we will be sticking with it for now.

This was so good, thank you. I also love TG&TB. I have not found anything weird or off. I guess it’s just based on your preferences are. Thanks again, great video❤

Yes!! I have 7 kids and have burnt myself out only combining 2 of my oldest and 2 middle and schooling the rest individually. We are switching to Biblioplan for family history and read alouds as well as TGATB science for my 1st through 6th. I am so relieved! Right now I teach 3 history levels, and 2 science levels. 🤦🏻‍♀️

We did TGTB space unit last year and loved it. We will definitely be doing more of their science units. We use their handwriting and love it as well! We switched my son to their math this year after using a different curriculum that just wasn’t working for him. TGTB math has been amazing for him; he has learned so much and he loves it. We just started TGTB preschool with our youngest and again, love it! She is doing so well with it and it is fantastic.

We did the Marine Biology unit combined with GR Oceans our 1st semester this year and LOVED it! We reallllly drew them out and earned a 1/2 science credit for my HS kid. We could have studied it all year and still needed more time for all the rabbit holes we went down lol.

We have only ever used TGTB science, but we’re taking a break and trying out Berean Builders next year…just to shake things up. We may end up missing TGTB. I’m sure I have some extra units sitting on my shelf just in case 😜 Thanks for sharing!

Newbie to homeschooling and we’re doing the Good and Beautiful…it looks wonderful

I agree with you! We have tried their science, math, history, and la. IMO, science is the star of their show. We also do selection similar to you-My kids get to pick a unit each and I also pick a unit.

Thanks for the review!!!

We just finished Arthropods! We loved it!

I decided to give a science unit a try and I was impressed. My 5th grader didn’t care for the unit due to the content but I had never formally taught her physics so I picked the simple machines unit. My 2nd and K boys really enjoyed the unit as I thought they would. My 5th grader chose Masterbooks Elementary Zoology for next year so that’s what we will be doing next year. I also wanted to see for myself if I found any Mormon teachings in the science units and there was nothing. I do think these units are a great way to do science! I love that they make it verrrrrrry easy to “do science” once or twice a week and still get through a unit every couple of months. We don’t do science every day so full year science curriculums kinda intimidate me (like the one we are doing next year). We already had all the books for zoology on our shelf so I just had to pay 20 for the workbook pdf for my daughter, so I really don’t care if we end up only doing a fraction of the zoology course next year. We will see because I just can’t see us getting to science daily.

We did TGTB during covid and I wasn’t impressed… but like you, came back to it this year and I love it. I like the layout of the new editions! We chose space science and I love the workbook that you can get for it and same with the US constitution unit! My 4th grader does not like the LA , so I’m changing her to something else, but math is great for all my kids and I can’t wait until the new editions of the history books come out!!!

I will tell you my experience with TGTB. I starting using it and I loved it. It seemed so good and beautiful! I heard it was put out by a Mormon company and I made all sorts of excuses about that. I told myself that they had all these Christian people from all denominations checking it so it must be fine. But God clearly showed me it was not fine. I believe the Holy Spirit will show each of us individually His will for us. So I would encourage anyone who is going to use this curriculum to pray and seek God about it first.

My kiddos enjoyed the readers that went with the units we did but not as much on the actual curriculum. We picked Botany and Paleontology last year. We are switching to a living book science next year.

Thanks for the previews, it looks amazing! We love Christian light but might do TGTB's aswell or a bit of both, now the science too! Some people are so strange on the religion aspect, they are Christian aswell, let's be kind!

I’m curious to hear how you’ll like the new format! The book is just so skinny compared to thick stack of content you get with the old versions. It makes me wary that a lot has been cut out. We’ve done the old version of Space and loved it and are going to start Birds this week. I also love that I can let my kids each choose a unit that most interests them. Hoping we will still like the new format for this fall. 🤞🏼

We are currently using the Health and Human Body unit by TGTB. It is so awesome. Lots of hands in activities and the student journals really encompass the scientific method perfectly for each grade level. We love the simple but effective experiments. We have made a model of blood and a model of the respiratory system and it turned out so neat! My kid is learning a lot from this unit.